Postcard depicting the Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church at 1514 Englewood after its spire blew off. Built in 1900, the church was destroyed by fire in December 1925.
The American Exchange National Bank staff assembled with the bank's founder Hamilton M. Peyton who is in the front row with the white side burns. Peyton was bank president from 1879-1921. The bank merged with First National Bank and renamed First and American National Bank in 1929. It became First American National Bank in 1958, First National in 1974 and Norwest in 1983. In 1998 Norwest merged with Wells Fargo and elected to take the more familiar name Wells Fargo.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View of the boat landing on the St. Louis river at the end of 133rd avenue west in the Fond du Lac neighborhood of Duluth. The Lake Superior and Mississippi railroad depot, houses and vegetable gardens are at the right
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A postcard showing three churches of Long Prairie, Minnesota: Presbyterian Church, Methodist Church and Lutheran Church. The Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1883. It burned in a fire in 1941 but the congregation rallied its financial and spiritual powers to rebuild. The new church was dedicated in April 1942 and cost $18, 000. Written on the back: "Miss Eilsie Schalfer 28 W. 10 St., St. Paul, Minn, Grey Eagle, Minn, Dec. 22. Dear Sister, We got your box, shure (sp.) was glad to hear from you. Say Elsie Ewald dond (sp.) got his ring, diden (sp.) you send it, or it got lost on the way. Anser right away, from your Mother."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
View of the Sauk River dam site after the final blasting in 1921. The Sauk River dam dated back to 1896. This photograph shows the east side of the Rockville Granite Company main plant looking west from across the river.
Boys dressed in dark suits and girls, all but one in a white dress ar posed in front of the Elbow Lake Opera House with their diplomas. All wear long-stemmed flowers and ribbons on their lapels. A handwritten note identifies it as being "Cleo and Chester's 8th grade Graduation.
Hamline University state champion football team. Back row from left: Coach Benjamin H. Beck, Henry Hoffert, Assistant Coach John Kobs, Herbert Labbitt, Ivor Lindgren. Third row: Herbert Swanbeck, Harold Knudsen, Fred Pedlar, Carl Lidberg, John Simons, Lloyd Sundin, Chester Sprague, John Koors, Avold Kaplan. Second row: Emerson Cady, Martin Kruse, Glenn Krueger, Harold Dirks, Leroy Klaus, Leslie Scott, Mark Mathews. Front row: Donald Warren, Harvey Kaplan, Fergus Dennerly, Walter Higbe, Albin Westling, Delos Henry.
The Hull-Rust-Mahoning mine established in 1892 in Hibbing is one of the largest open pit iron ore mines in the world, with a 1.5 by 3.5 mile footprint and depths up to 600 feet. It supplied as much as a fourth of all the ore mined in the U. S. during its peak production during WWI and WWII.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Clarence Magney is better known as a judge than a mayor. Born January 11, 1883 in Wisconsin, he was a successful lawyer until his election as Duluth mayor in 1917. During his stint as mayor, Magney worked to preserve and increase Duluth's parkland and parkways. He resigned from this office on September 15, 1920 in order to take a post as judge of the District Court, where he served for 23 years. He then served as associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1943-1953. He died on May 15, 1962, leaving behind his wife Lillian and their three children.
Portrait of Charles Kayser and his son, Francis, in front of a bus at the main building of the St. Peter State Hospital. Charles operated the St. Peter Bus and Transfer Company.
Postcard depicting Hamline University's Phi Delta Fraternity, Hewitt Avenue. Published for Florian's Pharmacy. Card was not mailed but reverse has a message: "This is our Hospital now & is 'plum full.' Faces south."
Exteriors of Old Main and Washburn Hall on the campus of Duluth Normal School. The home of Eugene W. Bohannon, first president of the school, is visible in the background on the right side.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth Kathryn A. Martin Library, University Archives
West Duluth; Zenith Furnace Company plant Fifty-eighth Avenue West and NP Railway tracks; ore ship; smokestacks; elevators; water tower; Duluth city in background
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The McDougall-Duluth shipyards occupied abut 50 acres at St. Louis riverfront near Spring street and Penton boulevard where it employed 3,500 men in 1919-1922.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The Mason Brothers Hardware Store in St. Peter, which was located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Grace Street, facing the avenue.
Postcard with composite images of five churches in Mapleton, Minnesota. Message on reverse addressed to Miss Elsie Langfield of Champlin, Minnesota, postmarked Mapleton.
The First National Bank in St. Peter was located at 225 South Minnesota Avenue at the time this postcard was made. Part of the Lindberg Hardware Store at 119 West Nassau Street can be seen behind the bank. A shoe store was located along the north side of the bank.
This view of the bank's interior is what a customer at the First National Bank in St. Peter saw upon entering the building. The building at 225 South Minnesota Avenue is no longer the home of the bank.
Postcard depicting Hamline University's Fellows Fraternity Home, Hewitt Avenue. Published for Florian's Pharmacy as an advertisement. Reverse has a stamped message from the pharmacy.